Auszug aus einem Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker

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Herder’s view of mythology

This new attitude is illustrated in a work of the German critic and philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herder entitled “
Auszug aus einem Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker” (1773; “Extract from a Correspondence on Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples”). Ossian is the name of an Irish warrior-poet whose Gaelic songs were supposedly translated...